by Christine | May 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
As those who have been reading my columns will probably know, last year I wrote and published a book with the title High Lonesome Below Sea Level: Faces and Stories of Bluegrass Music in the Netherlands. It features 56 full-page black-and-white portrait photographs...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
This is going to be about the gentle art of persuasion through the VOTING process.BUT FIRST – A WORD FROM MY HOUSE-MATE : If you are in or near San Francisco in December, you MUST NOT MISS: Lee Brady’s Country/Western Musical -“SOUTHERN LIGHTS,” which returns after...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I purport the following to be an accurate accounting of a band, in multiple connotations of the word, playing two gigs in a week apart. All of the participants are receiving Social Security checks (on the dole so to speak.) No names are mentioned except mine. It was...
by Christine | Nov 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Kicking Off Our Run-Up to Music Camp 2016 by Geoff Sargent and Peter LangstonSunday November 15, 2015Some of you might know that at least one of the authors (and I suspect both) have a fondness for Monty Python and an overactive imagination for all things...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
All I can say about that is thank goodness for the Godfather movie. If you haven’t seen that movie (released in 1972), then you have probably been living on Mars, and that’s only because there’s no cable t.v. on Mars… yet. Of course, there...
by Christine | May 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
I suppose it is only natural that someone who hates waste has also made a habit of making do. It seems those things go hand in hand, although when I think about it, there certainly is no requirement for them to go together. It is a fairly logical step from repurposing...
